Quotes About Silence

Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.

Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues.

A bird that sings too much will only lose its voice, but a bird that does not sing at all will lose its symphonies.

My mind feels like a beehive without the buzz.

Quiet birds rob the universe of beautiful symphonies.

From listening and silence can be learn a lot of, but these skills to be learn that's the hard and complicated work...

For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply 'get over it.' Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let's break this silence and end school bullying.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.

My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions.

And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

I mostly don't submit to talking about my work because I would like another talk about real life.

I want to have something substantial to say or I'm just not going to say anything.

Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.

With a population of 1.4 billion, China is a lucrative market. But getting into that market isn't cheap. At best, the price of doing business in China is silence; at worst, it's reading talking points straight from the Chinese Communist Party. Beijing is not subtle about it.

A Love Unspoken What of a love unspoken? Is it weaker without a name? Does this love deserve 2 exist without a title because I dare not share its name Does that make me cruel and cold 2 deny the world of my salvation because I chose 2 let it grow people tend 2 choke that which they do not understand Why shouldn't I be weary and withold this love from MAN What of a love unspoken no one ever knows But this is a love that lasts and in secrecy it grows

ciúnas gan uaigneas" := quietness without lonliness.

There's always going to be dreams and goals I have, but I never really tell people what they are.

Not answers, but the ending of questions, is the important thing.

There are no foolish questions, only foolish silence

The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had.

In an argument the best weapon to hold is your tongue.

You can't lose weight by talking about it. You have to keep your mouth shut.

Think all you speak, but speak not all you think.